Celebrity Interviews

Perry Botkin Jr. (born April 16, 1933 in New York, New York) is an American composer, producer, arranger, and musician.[1]
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He was born in 1933 as son of Perry Botkin Sr., who also was a successful musician and composer.
Botkin had a successful career in music for over forty years. As an arranger, he worked with Bobby Darin, Harry Nilsson, Gary Crosby, The Lettermen, Ed Ames, and Harpers Bizarre, among others. The film scores that he composed are similar to the music of his partner and counterpart, Barry De Vorzon.
In 1990, Botkin retired from the commercial music industry, and began self-producing CDs of electronic music. James Harbert, in the liner notes for the first of these recordings, says, "With these new musical works, Perry Botkin has achieved his musical goal. He has succeeded in being himself."
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Perry Botkin Sr. (July 22, 1907 in Springfield, Ohio — October 14, 1973 in Van Nuys, California) was an American jazz guitarist and composer.
Perry Botkin Sr. started working in the 1920s for Wayne Euchner, who had a big band in West Baden, Indiana.[1] Around 1928 he worked with Phil Napoleon's Original Memphis Five. Later he played the guitar in Hoagy Carmichael's Hong Kong Blues.[2] He also recorded with Al Jolson, Buddy Cole Trio, Connee Boswell, Eddie Cantor, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Paul Whiteman, Bob Hope, Fred Astaire, Spike Jones (Clink Clink, Another Drink), The Dorsey Brothers and Roy Rogers.[3][4]
During the 1940s into the early 1950s, Botkin was a member of many of the Hollywood Radio Studio Orchestras.[citation needed]
On NBC's Fibber McGee and Molly radio show, Botkin would be a featured jazz guitarist with a few bars of a guitar solo within the musical portion of that show, as a member of the Billy Mills Orchestra, who provided the radio orchestra for that show.[citation needed]
For 17 years he worked as musical director for Bing Crosby.[2] He appeared as a musician in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1956-1957).[3] In 1958 he composed the score for Murder by Contract and in the 1960s he composed many songs for The Beverly Hillbillies, e.g. "Elly Mae’s Theme".[3]
His son, Perry Botkin Jr., also became a successful musician and composer.[3]

Join Horace Heidt Jr. as he visits with singer/producer extraordinaire, Rosemary Butler. They will be discussing her work with Sir Paul McCartney on his latest CD.
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Rosemary Butler is an American singer. She began her career playing bass and singing in an all-girl band named the Ladybirds while attending Fullerton Union High School in Fullerton, California. The band appeared on several Los Angeles area television shows before opening for the Rolling Stones in 1964. She then joined all-female hard rock band Birtha[1] who released two albums for Dunhill Records. After they split in 1975, she became a popular back-up singer in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Her vocals were featured on Bonnie Raitt's album, Sweet Forgiveness, on songs "Gamblin' Man", "Runaway", "Sweet Forgiveness", and "Two Lives."
Butler has worked extensively as a back-up singer for Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, Warren Zevon, Neil Young, Bonnie Raitt, Boz Scaggs, Jackson Browne, and Rosanne Cash among others. She released a solo album, Rose, in 1983.
She achieved her greatest visibility and success as a solo artist in Japan in the early 1980s, contributing songs such as "Riding High" to the movie Dirty Hero (汚れた英雄) and "Children of the Light" (光の天使) to the anime film Harmagedon. She was also Co-Contractor of the 100 voice choir on Neil Young's album Living With War. She cofounded "The National In Choir," an LA-based volunteer holiday choir with singer/lyricist Deborah Pearl.[2]
Butler's second solo album and first one in 30 years, You Just Watch Me, was released in 2013.

Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone[1] (born June 1, 1934) is an American singer, composer, actor, writer, television personality, motivational speaker, and spokesman. He was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. He sold over 45 million records, had 38 top-40 hits, and appeared in more than 12 Hollywood films.
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According to Billboard, Boone was the second-biggest charting artist of the late 1950s, behind only Elvis Presley, and was ranked at number nine in its listing of the Top 100 Top 40 Artists 1955–1995.[2] Boone still holds the Billboard record for spending 220 consecutive weeks on the charts with one or more songs each week.
At the age of 23, he began hosting a half-hour ABC variety television series, The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, which aired for 115 episodes (1957–1960). Many musical performers, including Edie Adams, Andy Williams, Pearl Bailey, and Johnny Mathis, made appearances on the show. His cover versions of rhythm and blues hits had a noticeable effect on the development of the broad popularity of rock and roll. Elvis Presley was the opening act for a 1955 Pat Boone show in Cleveland, Ohio.[3]
As an author, Boone had a number-one bestseller in the 1950s (Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Prentice-Hall). In the 1960s, he focused on gospel music and is a member of the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. He continues to perform and speak as a motivational speaker, a television personality, and a conservative political commentator.

Les Brown, Jr., born 1940, became the full-time leader of the Band of Renown. They continue to perform throughout the world and have a regular big band show in Branson, Missouri. Brown Jr. also hosts a national radio show on the Music of Your Life network. Brown Jr. was a television actor in the 1960s (Gunsmoke, General Hospital, The Baileys of Balboa, Gilligan's Island), a rock musician and producer who worked with Carlos Santana, and a concert promoter for many country music artists including Merle Haggard and Loretta Lynn. In 2004, Brown Jr. received the "Ambassador of Patriotism" award from the POW Network.
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